Former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said in an interview with the BBC that the United Kingdom will continue to be affected by the euro zone if the voice of the British exit from the European Union or voted to stay in the Union. He said Lord King said the euro zone , which includes 19 EU countries will continue to be the 28th largest trading partner of the United Kingdom . He says advocates for Britain to leave the European Union to conclude that the country could best emerging economies with trade agreements if outside the European Union.
But German Finance Minister warned that the global economy " Setsmm " if the United Kingdom came out of the European system. The vote by the British in the 23 of June next year in a referendum on whether they prefer the survival of the country within the European Union or the opposite. "Anxiety" When asked whether the United Kingdom will be affected negatively and severely problems afflicting the euro zone after the referendum , Lord King said, "This will be true that we were inside or outside the Union . "
Lord King and took over as governor of the central bank during the recent financial and economic crisis, leaving office in 2013.
He said that the euro project was "an error basically," and that Germany, which is one of the main engines of the single currency, will be better off if I came out of the euro system.
"So we should not be worried by the European Union, but the euro zone."
The former governor did not give his opinion on whether Britain would prefer to go out of the European Union.
According to the British National Bureau of Statistics figures, the United Kingdom sold $ 200.4 billion pounds of exports to the euro area countries in 2014, representing 39 percent of the total goods and services sold abroad in that year.